the intercommunal net,
scaling safe communities
with shared resources &
democratic tools

Notably, the service disruptions are impacting Bluesky, but other communities, like Blacksky, that run their own infrastructure on the underlying protocol that powers the decentralized social network, are still functioning. Blacksky’s team told TechCrunch that the Bluesky outage has led to a “significant spike” in migration requests from Bluesky users over the past 12 hours, as users, devs, and other ATmosphere founders like Sebastian at Eurosky have been promoting its services.

We want to be specific when we talk about how Blacksky uses AI.

Blacksky is the foremost example. They run Blacksky.community, which reads like a Bluesky client re-skin. However, Blacksky is going well beyond it behind the scenes: they have their own moderation and T&S team; their own rules about which accounts to keep around, ban, or relay; their own growing parallel stack (which will be great for general resilience); and are even building products for their community like Blacksky Cash.

In this presentation, I will discuss our moderation service, how we use Polis to bring the community in to make decisions on creating new labels, and some of the best practices among our volunteer moderators and Trust and Safety team. The goal is to give others (communities and developers) on the protocol some ideas to think about when spinning up their own moderation tools.

I had the privilege of discussing Blacksky and AT Protocol at several different college campuses, conference venues and other settings along with webinars and doing user research. I plan to share those learnings to help others build better products and how we particularly plan to incorporate those learnings from both a product and operations standpoint.